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16 damage is possible with double crit damage. Long rifles have a damage range from 6-11, with +4 crit damage. So double crit damage range is 14-19. Precision Shot crit damage range would be 11-16. You probably aren't calculating that right. It's not double damage on the crit bonus, it's double the...

I've seen 7 aliens once or twice. It's just very uncommon. Sounds like ufopedia is wrong. Excepting the special modifiers for certain missions, each step reduces activity by a whole category. Light > Very Light > Extremely Light for instance. A normal Light-Moderate can always be reduced to Extremel...

Yep. The 1 tile width is annoying (and restrictive of how many enemies you can get), but guessing which tile you need to stand in to hit the maximum number of targets is always annoying, no matter what size or shape the template is.

ShredderGun_BaseDamage = (Damage=6, Spread = 2, PlusOne = 50, Crit = 3, Pierce = 0, Shred=2, Tag = "", DamageType="Projectile_Conventional") ShredstormCannon_BaseDamage = (Damage=9, Spread = 2, PlusOne = 50, Crit = 4, Pierce = 0, Shred=4, Tag = "", DamageType="Pro...

That's a fairly large number of soldiers. I have 65 soldiers above Rookie and 29 of them at Master Sergeant. I can easily enough run 3 major missions (7-9 guys) at a time with some left over for hitting up smaller stuff. I'm just about to liberate my 4th region, but I have 2 other tower missions and...

Does any1 know what is the aim of the tounge attack. It happened just a few times to me in my campaign (i tried to make sure it doesnt happen as much as i could), but when it did it often got a soldier in full cover. So often in fact I got the feeling that it has a massive aim boost. A regular chan...

It means you are ready to play on a higher difficulty level. I'm doing all my learning on Veteran too and only have a few pips in December. I attribute most of that to playing the strategic layer correctly (although I'm taking my time on finishing so I can try the end-game toys). From what I've seen...

You might have to build a second power room in the late game, but it's truly not a problem then. In fact, it's cheaper than spending 20 elerium on the power room upgrade. If you don't have to build a second power room, all you get is an empty hole in your avenger at the end of the game.

The argument seems to be that knowing about an "OP" ability at tier 3 past 2 rubbish abilities is more valuable than taking 6 level 1 skills or 2 level 1 skills and 2 level 2 skills that you actually wanted. You can only train 12 level 3 skills before the end of december, which is around t...

Jacke wrote:And if you happen to get to 10 corpses when the previous research finishes, you can do the autopsy instantaneously.

This doesn't apply to the Advent Officer Autopsy.

In LW2, you only get corpses on Enemy Material missions. Stuff like Supply Raid and Troop Column. The very first mission is a Troop Column mission. If you haven't done any missions with Enemy Material in the reward description, you will not have gathered any extra corpses. The usual restrictions on ...

Yeah, the balance of the game isn't on such a razors edge that knowing whether or not the tier 2 and 3 perks are any good is a huge game breaker. Going for tier 3s means you have another character without a tier 1 and a tier 2. Getting two tier 3s on a 10 man A team takes more time than you have in ...

CasualGamer wrote: So if you get hit for say 4 and healed, then hit for 3 damage, your recovery time is identical to having been hit once for 4 damage?

I hope it is accurate as it makes medics much more powerful.

That's exactly how it works. Only your lowest hp total in a mission matters for wound timers.

Is Red Fog the default? I've never used it, but so many people in this thread are citing it... Also random side note- do Stasis Vests prevent wound time? I'm assuming not, which is why I haven't researched them. Red fog is win more lose more. It's by no means the default unless you like winning mor...

I'm not sure where to look to see if their cycles have been changed. Does this mean at what force levels they can first appear? Both the Berserker Queen and Archon King turned up in Troop Column missions for me. The Viper King died in his quest mission, so I can't say anything about him.

I have already asked this but nobody could (or wanted to) answer. How does Field Surgeon exactly work? The description clearly states it reduces wound times by 1 hit point. Going by the description alone this would make it strong early when you usually have 4-7 HP per soldiers and are hit for 2-5 b...

You get Resistance MECs too though. It's hilarious when you've collected 3 or 4 MECs in a region and get a Rendevouz... Micromissile everything

Only the killing blow matters for destroying corpses and loot. That's vanilla behaviour and it hasn't been changed in LW2.

Surprisingly, MEC micro-missiles do not destroy loot, even though they look like a grenade/rocket type ability.

I just got this bug too. Came out after I researched Plasma Blasters.

Mostly agree, but.... Specialist: fail safe, you can cheese hack pulls (should be removed imo) and you can disable towers on stealth missions (legitimate but also infrequent). I did try fail safe and I felt field surgeon would have more value, I didn't miss not taking it. Fail Safe + Full Override a...

This is somewhat of a work in progress. I've only just started playing with it recently after having tried it out more by accident. Had a squad that was kind of a mix bag, but it had 2 Infantry, 2 Gunners and 1 Sniper, and I was amazed how well they worked together. So I've been pushing harder to g...

Here are the loot tables for vulture (from XComGameCore.ini): +LootTables = ( TableName = "MutonM3_VultureLoot", Loots[0]=(Chance=80,MinCount=1,MaxCount=1,TableRef="MutonM3_TimedLoot",RollGroup=1), Loots[1]=(Chance=80,MinCount=1,MaxCount=1,TableRef="GenericLateAlienLoot_LW&q...

Unfortunately Bastion requires Solace which while being a good ability, apparently causes lags for a number of player. I'm not sure whether it's true or not but my soldiers seem to move more slowly when i have a Psi with Solace. Sounds like you are confusing Fortress with Solace. Bastion requires F...

Needle Grenadiers want Plasma Grenades because killing things causes nothing bad for them. If using Hail of Bullets to kill 1 hard target is "OP", what is using a Plasma Grenades to kill a few hard targets all at once? :) Other damaging grenadiers want Plasma Grenades because they make a g...

Like LordYanaek said, I think you are underestimating the value of an overwatch spec Specialist. With just Cool Under Pressure, Ever Vigilant and Sentinel, you get a guy that can run flat out and get 2 reaction shots that can crit at the end of it. Unlike Rapid Reaction, where missing a shot means t...